Jim Brenner is a state forest-service manager and firefighter. Chuck Jones is a manager at the Florida Department of Education. They live in Tallahassee and have been sweethearts for 25 years, a married couple for five.
They have never been gay-rights...

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We are "hoist by our own petard."
We have created the Internet, which most of us believe is the greatest way to spread information. It educates millions who never had access to schooling. For the older generation,...

TALLAHASSEE -- Taxpayers are on the hook for at least $307,000, and perhaps much more, to cover legal expenses in Gov. Rick Scott's failed efforts to convince courts that a campaign pledge to drug test welfare recipients is constitutional. A...

TALLAHASSEE -- Same-sex couples should continue to be prevented from getting married in Florida until a legal battle plays out about the constitutionality of the state's gay-marriage ban, Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a federal-court filing...

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to keep gay marriages from starting in Florida in three weeks.
Her office asked the high court to extend a stay that is set to expire Jan. 5....

Gay-rights activists were ecstatic: Come Jan. 6, they thought, Florida same-sex couples would be lining up at courthouses across the state to get married.But that is not what the people who issue marriage licenses in Florida — county clerks of court —...

Robby Simpson, president of the Mount Dora High School senior class, got a dose of real-world politics as he fought to save student-government associations across Lake County.
Despite the pleas of Simpson and other students who stressed the importance of...

TAVARES — For hours, Lake County teachers, parents and students hurled complaints at the School Board during a Monday-night meeting that drew such a crowd that it violated the fire code of the room where it was held.
More than 250 people wearing red...

MASCOTTE — In the middle of the night, John Ellis awoke in pain.
A bulging cyst had formed near his knee, so his partner, John Bradford, rushed him to the hospital.
But when the couple arrived, Bradford was not allowed to accompany his ailing partner to...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to extend a stay sought by Florida officials defending the state's ban on same-sex marriages, allowing gay marriages to proceed in Florida next month.Weddings could start on Jan. 6 under an order by a...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday said a Florida law requiring applicants for welfare benefits to undergo drug testing is unconstitutional, a decision that could affect efforts to enforce similar laws in other states.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of...

TALLAHASSEE — Pointing to a "pathbreaking development" at the U.S. Supreme Court, attorneys for same-sex couples quickly asked a federal judge Tuesday to move forward with ending Florida's ban on gay marriage.
U.S. District Judge Robert...

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Massachusetts sued Thursday to obtain records about the killing of Ibragim Todashev, who was shot to death last year in his Orlando condo by an FBI agent.
"When law enforcement officials kill...